Religion is comparable to a childhood neurosis.
We are never so defensless against suffering as when we love.
I do not doubt that it would be easier for fate to take away your suffering than it would for me. But you will see for yourself that much has been gained if we succeed in turning your hysterical misery into common unhappiness.
America is a mistake, a giant mistake.
Religion [is] the universal obsessional neurosis of humanity
Civilized society is perpetually menaced with disintegration through this primary hostility of men towards one another.